Paws on blogging

I missed quite a few blog post Mondays in the last few months. Was there a good reason?

Sort of—I’ll call it life happens. Jasper getting the cancer diagnosis, losing him to cancer, work, house-sitting, finalizing vacation, working on special orders, and more cats entering my life—time for writing a blog came to a sudden & grinding halt. To say I was feeling burnt out would be a drastic understatement; it wasn’t even burnout from just one piece of my life. All angles of my life had me feeling totally burnt out and just needing a full-on break from everything, everyone, and all that is important to me. Each day would bring a new level of crankiness, short-temperedness, and a short fuse that would make me blow up over the simplest and least important things. Never a good place to be for anyone. A vacation was just what I needed, and one that was a full week of unplanned days. So I could truly take each day as nature handed it to me.

I mentioned Jasper's cancer - there are a few blog posts already posted about that - and boy, do we still miss him. We have not fully finished mourning him. I have picked up his ashes - he's at home hanging with Peppermint, Rollie, and Pita - adding to the pressure of making a memorial wall in the house for the pets. Send me your pics and ideas for a cool way to memorialize all of our pets as they pass.

I like keeping my posts short (a quick 4 or 5-minute read), so some things to look for:

*kittens available for adoption and how that came about

*pregnant momma cat and an unknown number of babies

*surviving a vacation that my husband planned and knowing each day has no plan

*anything else the universe throws my way as I'm getting back on track with writing.

For thebetter part of 2 weeks (in my major burnout) I kept thinking about the week away from home and compilied a loose list of what I'd like to accomplish. On that list were about 4 things, some of them being absolutely not important other than in the self-care department, but nonetheless - on the list.

To date, I have done three of those things and am working on the fourth as I write this (with a feeling that there was a fifth item that has totally escaped me and now won't happen!). What did I do? Painted my fingers and toes—yep, totally a self-care thing—and something I truly never do at home. I used to go monthly for a pedicure, but expenses cut that out. So I did that yesterday and love that I have color on my nails again. Finished a book—sounds simple—but when you are so tired you can't even hold the book open, it's impossible to read. A cloudy day at the beach made finishing a book possible. Finished a craft project I started and listed it on my website. This was probably the easiest to do! Last on my list—you guessed it—writing some blog posts. So here I am, writing away and hoping that I have enough topics to get me set for a few Blog Post Mondays.

I beg of you (with the soft urges of our cats too) to share my blog site with all your friends and family, shop my merchandise section, and lastly—help keep writer's block at bay—send me things you'd like to read about!

Till our tails cross again,

Melanie

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